Alfred Brazier Howell

See also: Howell

Alfred Brazier Howell is a American zoologist , born the July 28th 1886 with Catonsville, Maryland and dead the December 23rd 1961 with Bangor, Maine.

It makes its studies with Yale in 1905 - 1906. In 1910, it goes to California where it starts to study the birds of the Chanel Islands. In 1918, it goes on a scientific journey in Arizona. In 1921, he becomes the vice-president of the ornithological Company Cooper. The following year, it goes to Washington D.C. In 1923 and 1924, it makes excursions of study in California.

Howell works, of 1923 with 1927, as assistant scientists at the biological research service of the the United States. Of 1928 with 1943, it gives courses of Anatomie to the department of anatomy at the medical school of the Université Johns Hopkins.

In 1929, it organizes the Council for the conservation of the whales and other marine mammals. Of 1938 with 1942, he is vice president, then of 1942 with 1944, president in the American Society off Mammalogists.

List partial of the publications

  • 1917 : Birds off the islands off the coast off southern California (The Club, Hollywood).
  • 1926 : has symmetry in the skulls off mammals (Washington).
  • 1926 : Anatomy off the Wood rat (The Williams & Wilkins company, Baltimore).
  • 1927 : Revision off the American lemming mice (genus Synaptomys) (Washington).
  • 1927 : Contribution to the anatomy off the Chinese finless porpoise (Washington).
  • 1929 : comparative Contribution to the anatomy off the eared and earless seals (Washington).
  • 1929 : Mammals from Clouded off in the collections the United States National museum (Washington).
  • 1930 : Aquatic mammals; to their adaptations to life in the toilets (D.C. Thomas, Springfield and Baltimore - republished in 1970 Dover Publications, New York).
  • 1932 : The brachial flexor muscles in primates (Washington).
  • 1939 : Large anatomy (D. Appleton-Century company, New York and London).
  • 1944 : Speed in animals; to their off specialization for running and leaping (University Chicago near, Chicago - republished in 1965 by Hafner Pub. Co., New York).

Source

  • Luther Little (1968), Alfred Brazier Howell, 1886-1961. Newspaper off Mammalogy , 49 , N° 4 (Nov., 1968), pp. 732-742.

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